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Caught Between Centuries

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Eric Gibson

Updated Nov. 17, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Boston

M onet equals impressionism, and impressionism equals the 19th Century, right? So what's all this about Monet in the 20th century, as an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts through Dec. 27 would have it?

It only adds to the confusion to be told that Monet died in 1926. For by that time, one major 20th century art movement, fauvism, had come and gone. Another, cubism, was well into its second mutation and spreading its...